Connecticut western news., 1887-06-15
CURRENT EVENTS ABROAD.

The Belgian Senate has passed the bill increasing the import duties on cattle an d dressed meats.
 Private information received at London indicates that the Grown Prince of Germany is really in precarious condition. His disease, notwithstanding repeated denials, is cancer of the throat, from which he cannot recover. This is SO we'll understood that the personal qualities of his young son and the probability of his succeeding Emporer William are being freely discussed.
 The ship Hamburg came in collision dur ing dense fog with the steamer Tern the latter was crossing the Channel The Tern went to the bottom. Her captain and four others were drowned.
 Tho 'Plan of Campaign" has forced an acceptance of the tenants terms on the Pom sonby estates.
 The Russian Ambassador to Turkey accuses the special envoy of Great Britain of having bribed the Grand Vizier and other Turkish officials to grant favorable conditions in the treaty about Egypt. A St. Petersburg newspaper says that Rus sia stands ready to interfere in Bokhara on the outbreak of rebellion there. The Paris press comments indicate that in the Left groups there are 150 Deputies solid against M. Rouvier, and, therefore, that he Will be unable to increase his Republican majority the support of the Right would make the Cabinets existence precarious. Spain and her African colonies are to be l connected by telegraph cables. -Phylloxera has appeared at Funfkirchen, | in the midst of the Baranda vineyards, the | finest in Hungary.
 The projected journey of the Emperor | William to Gastein, where he was expected to | meet the Emperor of Austria, has been aban- | doned on account of the Kaiser's physical con- | dltion, and the meeting suspended indefinitely | The Spanish Government has decided to | largely increase the import duties on goods inn l ported from nations which, like the United States, have no commercial treaty With Spain. | This is in direct violation of the promises | made by the Government to the Cuban home | rulers who recently demanded low tariff and other economic reforms as the price of their abstention from agitating the question of an- | nexing the Spanish West Indies to the United States, and is generally denounced as gratui- l tons piece of bad faith.
 | Pref. Wagner the African traveller con- mitted suicide at Munich.
 President Grevy has made personal do- nation of 10000 francs to the Opera Comique | sufferers.
 The statue of Haydn was unveiled at Vii enna in the presence of an immense crowd o1 spectators. The Emperor pulled the silker
 cords which uncovered the statue, and in
 touching and eloquent speech presented tho work to the city in the name of its patrons and promoters.
 | -1uo Olatc department IS III COfreSpOnuenC< with the British Government relative to send
 ing paupers to this country.
 Prince Bismarck is indisposed, and vii not attend the Baltic Canal ceremonies at Kiel
 He will soon go to Freidrichsruhe.
 Mir. Gladstone will receive many demon strations of honor while en route to Swansea
 He is not expected to make any speeches, as he desires to preserve his voice for the fight ir
 Parliament.
 | A landslip has occurred on Spitzen Noun
 tain, near Spiringen, Switzerland, covering al area of two square milometres. Many houses were destroyed. Ten persons were killed
 many more seriously wounded, and man.
 herds of cattle were de troyed. The debris damned the Schachen torrent, forming an ex
 tensive lake, and if the dam gives away ser
 ious catastrophe is inevitable.
 | The German steamer Oder was wrecked
 on Socotra Island, ill the Indian Ocean, or
 May 3Oth. The passengers and most of the crew were saved. She arrived at Shanghai
 April 26 from Bremen, and was probably or
 her way back when wrecked. The Oder be-
 longed to the Norddeutscher Lloyd. She was
 built in Greenock in 1874; was of 8, ,15S tons
 burden. and her horse power was 600.